Dorms: Can you get athlete’s foot from the dorm shower?
College can be rough, especially if you're a freshman. New friends, crusty professors, looming term papers and Friday afternoon classes are some of the hurdles newbies navigate . No one would blame you if you decided to call it a day, take a hot shower, and wash your academic and personal troubles down the drain. Beware. Lurking on the seemingly clean dorm shower floor are myriad creatures waiting to glom onto your body. Perhaps the most insidious are mold-like fungi called dermatophytes . Typically two types of dermatophytes, Trichophyton mentagrophytes and Trichophyton rubrum , can give you a nagging case of tinea pedis . Sounds awful, doesn't it? Despite its hard-to-pronounce Latin name, the malady is usually referred to as athlete's foot [source: WebMD]. Keep Reading Below Athlete's foot is a common infection that affects the bottoms of your feet and the areas between your toes. If left unchecked, this creeping crud can spread to your toenails, hands, underarm...